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nigellicus's review
5.0
Back when I hung out at the Warren Ellis Forum and The Authority was coming out, there was a lot of talk about decompressed storytelling, and widescreen comics. This is the opposite. Sp far the opposite. Crowded, dense, detailed, the characters, the stories, the dialogue, the sound effects, the colours, all so crowded together they're literally tripping over each other all across the pages, with tight focus, like a television screen rather than a cinema. It's also garish and nasty, knowingly full of the sex and violence it sends up in its satirical take on the media, so sordid and twisted, a cynical corrupt world full of venality and hatred. It's glorious. A sly bit of fast and furious pop-comics, politically aware, culturally accelerated, socially diseased. Chaykin's a craftsman, and never loses control of the chaotic material he's splurging with exceptional skill and energy all over the page.
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